Transgender Equality report

Date

2016

Title

Transgender Equality report

Description

The House of Commons ‘Women and Equalities Committee’ publishes The Transgender Equality report noting that “across the board, government departments are struggling to support trans people effectively” and makes 30 recommendations including: urgently updating the Gender Recognition Act 2004 to enable gender self-declaration, amending the protected characteristic in the Equality Act 2010 to that of “gender identity”, and creating a legal category for those people with a gender identity outside that which is binary.

References

Inner Temple Library, ‘Transgender law : a short history’ <https://www.innertemplelibrary.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Transgender-Law.pdf> accessed 16 May 2024

Source

United Kingdom Parliament (Women and Equalities Committee)

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